With his small digital camera, Alain Cavalier found paradise on earth. After the political study of “Pater” (2011), Cavalier goes back to his filmeur mode to create one of his most enlightening works. For we are all equal in paradise before the light of what is living.)
In ‘Morphine: Journey of Dreams,’ the story of the iconic genre-busting 1990s ‘Low Rock’ band Morphine is told by its surviving members and the coterie around them, sans narration, and made palpable through saxophonist Dana Colley’s tour journals. Rare live performances from throughout the group’s career woven into the tale display why the trio’s unique and mesmeric sound continues to resonate with its fans and music lovers worldwide following the death of its singer, songwriter and two-string bassist Mark Sandman onstage at an Italian music festival in 1999. It’s an artfully-delivered document of this peerless musical act’s compelling career and life together and their resonant musical creativity that doesn’t just get behind but rather inside the music and the soul of of the band.)
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.)
“Othon” is a documentary on families who have occupied the Brazilian hotel Othon Palace in São Paulo.)
Lee Scratch Perry’s Vision of Paradise is a unique project in many ways. It is the life story of the legendary musician, but it is not a biography, it is a fairytale documentary! The director followed Lee Perry for thirteen years and discovered an unbelievable story, a revelation, told about and with one of the major protagonists of contemporary music, the other half of the story that has never been told. The movie can be seen as a guide for how to change the world with music, with a positive attitude, mindset or, as Lee Perry calls it, vibration.)
In “Personal Development”, a divorced father renews his relationship to his youngest daughter through unexpected news. )
While the Iraq war continues, a day’s sightseeing and the feature of a German hotel provoke a stream of thoughts about events large and small.)
Paris. Winter. One night, Antoine, a 22 year-old boy, decides to go to the seaside. All night long, dealing with drug and love, he will try to buy his train ticket, which will leave at the crack of dawn.)
“Life After Death and Above” is a personal look into the band that took his name from Apocalypse Now’s helicopters (1979), with the help of band members, friends, and an insight into their future projects.)
Our faces aren’t what they seem to be.)
Kim Longinotto builds an unusual object in a career driven by social documentary film: a collage of love stories from the history of British film, driven by the music of Richard Hawley. “Love is all”: words that echo in the romantic songs of Hawley and the gaze of the British filmmaker.)
An old Polaroid machine wakes up evil spirits in a house.)
Two twin towers rise in the outskirts of Paris between the daily rush of thousands of cars and people driving in highways. At the top, two girls from opposite sides of Europe meet in rooms and hallways that carry the names of mythological gods. “Mercuriales” is a magical tale on the European economic system, the ruins of its political history, and the dreams of people – real or mythical – who live in it.)
Alex Ross Perry is also present in the Silvestre section with “Queen of Earth”, an emotional thriller with Elizabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, and the influence of Ingmar Bergman and Roman Polanski. )
“Mapalé” is an experimental look on intimacy in a landscape touched by nature and fantasy.)
“Remake, Remix, Rip-Off” is a hallucinating journey through Turkish Z movies.)
A series of cinematic miniatures about the essence of music and the process of its reception. Music is first excreted, and then received. Sausage or spherical. The resulting sound is not the actual sound of the instruments shown, but the perceived timbre of abstract music representation.)
Roman Polanski’s second feature, with Catherine Deneuve. Shot in London.)